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Creator: Slava Polunin Producers: Matthew Gale, Jenny King, Mark Goucher Reviewer: Edie R The Public Reviews Rating: “The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.” Thus spake Angela Carter in 1984, and I wouldn’t usually disagree. But ‘Slava’s Snowshow’, might have struck her as an exception to her own rule. In the course of [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Psyche Stott Reviewer: Howard Holdsworth The Public Reviews Rating: The story of Calendar Girls is familiar to most of the nation over the age of 21, but this production managed to bring vitality and freshness to all aspects of the play, whilst pulling the emotions of the audience across the wide open spaces of [...]

Writer: Alistair McDowall Director: Clive Judd Reviewer: Val Peets The Public Reviews Rating: Written by Alistair McDowall, Presented by Cheap Seats and Directed by Clive Judd at The Library Theatre, 5.30, was both funny, uncomfortable and compelling in equal measure. Staged as part of the Re:Play Festival 2010 and described as, “A compelling and at times terrifying piece charting [...]

Music: Sergei Prokoviev Choreography: Natalya Ryshenko, Victor Smirnov-Golovano Director: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Reviewer: Bill Avenel The Public Reviews Rating: Classical ballet in the Russian tradition is the Moscow City Ballet company’s stock in trade and their interpretation of Romeo and Juliet did not disappoint the good sized audience at Chichester last night. One of the problems for live performers is that they [...]

Writer: Hans Christian Andersen Adaptor: Bryony Lavery Lyrics/Lyrics: Jason Carr Director: Dale Rooks and Abigail Graham Reviewer: Ann Bawtree The future of the British Theatre is safe. That is, if the enthusiasm, talent and discipline of the seventy three strong cast of Dale Rooks’ and Abigail Graham’s production of a new musical version of The [...]

Writer: George Bernard Shaw Director: Michael Rudman Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile Mrs Warren’s Profession was first written in 1894 and the content so shocked the press that it wasn’t performed publicly till 1925. Victorian audiences were unable to cope with Shaw’s frank and honest portrayal of a woman who chose prostitution over starvation. This choice is [...]

Writer: Richard Everett Director: Alan Strachan Reviewer David Griffiths First presented at Chichester festival theatre on May 9th 2006, this current touring production of Entertaining Angels stops off for a week in its spiritual home.A crisp and witty beginning hinting at a light hearted evening develops a much moodier edge as the story unfolds. By [...]

Writer: Harold Brighouse Music: Matthew Scott Director: Jonathan Church Reviewer: Talisker Stuart-Gordon Hobson’s Choice was originally written in 1915, set in Salford c.1880; this production retains the period costumes and Victorian shop set, adding an old-world charm to a timeless comedy. The concept of the overbearing father, all mouth and not a lot in the [...]